Feb 12 2009
The Starter Wife is Canceled!
USA Network has decided to not renew The Starter Wife for another season. It should be recalled that this show was originally intended to be a mini-series presentation only, but the network thought to extend it with another season.
Truth be told, it was better off as a six-part series. At least that one had a more coherent, tighter story-line. It was even nominated for a Golden Globe (and I think won some, too). It was that clever.
When it had its 10 episode run as a regular series afterwards, it lost its edge and quality. While I still did enjoy it, they made too many changes in the story that it wasn’t as smartly written as the first offerings.
So, now the cable network is canceling the program citing that it wasn’t rating as well as they have hoped. This should have been fine for me, except that when they left the show so open-ended, it’s too bad the viewers are left with no closure.
